Collected Thoughts

When I left two men were complaining the movie was stupid and didn't make sense. I guess they never saw LoTR.

I've seen this sort of thing before, and it continues to baffle me, even as I come to understand it.

I have come to undersztand that much of the movie-going public...

1) Just buys a tickets to whatever is starting next. This goes a long way towards explaining why some people will go see a movie and get their hackles up, when just the tiniest bit of research into currently playing movies would have told them this film would get their hackles up.

2) knows next to nothing about who these people are, what else they've done, what movies are playing now...

I really just don't understand. I know it's a personality difference between myself and them, but I don't understand why they're going to the movies, then.

This experience is made much more surreal by living in Hollywood and watching the tourists. I've watched tourists walking down the street and look at people's stars like Clint Eastwood or Sylvester Stallone and ask each other "who is that?"

I mean, not knowing stuff about movies, but paying to watch the pretty pictures anyway is one thing, but planning a trip to the filmmaking capital of America while not really knowing anything at all about films and starts??? How were you planning on having any fun???

People are very strange.